Half of these exist because I was bored once.

The Windows 10 and MacOS ones are GPU passthrough enabled and what I occasionally use if I have to use a Windows or Mac application. Windows 7 is also GPU enabled, but is more a nostalgia thing than anything.

I think my PopOS VM was originally installed for fun, but I used it along with my Arch Linux, Debian 12 and Testing (I run Testing on host, but I wanted a fresh environment and was too lazy to spin up a Docker or chroot), Ubuntu 23.10 and Fedora to test various software builds and bugs, as I don’t like touching normal Ubuntu unless I must.

The Windows Server 2022 one is one I recently spun up to mess with Windows Docker Containers (I have to port an app to Windows, and was looking at that for CI). That all become moot when I found out Github’s CI doesn’t support Windows Docker containers despite supporting Windows runners (The organization I’m doing it for uses Github, so I have to use it).

  • Raccoonn@lemmy.ml
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    29 minutes ago

    GPU passthrough has always been one of those exciting ideas I’d love to dive into one day. My current GPU being a little older, has only 4GB of RAM. Oh the joy’s of being a budget PC user. Thankfully it’s more of a “would be nice rather” than an “actually need”…

  • billwashere@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    34 minutes ago

    Well I do but I have a machine with 3/4 of a terabyte of memory on it.

    Work scraps are great sometimes.

    How are you running the MacOS VMs. The machine I have is a cheese grater so that makes it easier.

  • wulf@lemmy.world
    2·
    5 hours ago

    I run a different LXC on Proxmox for every service, so it’s a bunch. Probably a better way to do it since most of those just run a docker container inside them.

    • WasPentalive@lemmy.oneEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Why mix docker and VMs? Isn’t docker sort of like a VM, an application-level VM maybe? (I obviously do not understand Docker well)

      • Kovukono@pawb.socialEnglish
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        3 hours ago

        Serious answer, I’m not sure why someone would run a VM to run just a container inside the VM, aside from the VM providing volumes (directories) to the VM. That said, VMs are perfectly capable of running containers, and can run multiple containers without issue. For work, our Gitlab instance has runners that are VMs that just run containers.

        Fun answer, have you heard of Docker in Docker?

      • lazynooblet@lazysoci.alEnglish
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        4 hours ago

        I like to run a hypervisor host as just that, a hypervisor host. The host being stable is important, and also reduce attack surface by only having it as that.

        An LXC per service is somewhat overkill. A docker host running on LXC could likely run all the docker containers.

  • veroxii@aussie.zone
    3·
    6 hours ago

    Not VMs but I have way more docker containers. I run most things as containers which keeps the base OS nice and clean and free from dependency hell.

    • Dagamant@lemmy.world
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Nah, most of the windows ones don’t get updates any more and the Linux ones can get a script that updates on boot. Takes longer to start up but handles the job itself.

  • BlueÆtherA
    7·
    10 hours ago

    I think you have a problem, there needs to be more to be normal.